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Minnesota State Fair 2016 - Record Size Attendance

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Channel: 1st508th Airborne · 2016 · People & Blogs

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Footage from our 04Sep16 visit to the Minnesota State Fair. 

The Great Minnesota Get-Together attracted a record number 1,943,719 fairgoers over the 12 days that ended Labor Day. That’s up about 9 percent from last year and about 7 percent from 2014, which previously held the attendance record with 1,824,830 visitors.

The Fair’s two Fridays broke attendance records for those days, and the 260,374 people who came through gates on Saturday set a record for any day at the Fair.

One factor that certainly drove up attendance this year: fantastic weather with no late-summer heat wave. The average high for the Twin Cities during the Fair was 78, and none of the 12 days rose above 86.

*The Minnesota State Fair is the largest state fair in the United States by average daily attendance. It is also the second-largest state fair in the United States by total attendance, trailing only the State Fair of Texas, which generally runs 'twice as long' as the Minnesota State Fair.

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